In the two years since Vision Zero was announced, 93 pedestrians or cyclists have died on the streets of Toronto.The 93rd victim died yesterday, just one day before the second anniversary of Vision Zero’s unveiling. At around noon Tuesday, a 58-year-old woman was killed in a collision with a flatbed truck while riding her bike in the Annex. That same day, police announced that a 36-year-old cyclist, who collided with a vehicle at Colborne Lodge Dr. and Lake Shore Boul. W. on May 15, had died of his injuries.Two years ago Wednesday, Mayor John Tory announced the initiative that would become Vision Zero — a plan to reduce traffic deaths to zero by 2021.Since that announcement, the rate of pedestrian and cyclist deaths has not dropped. Twenty-one pedestrians or cyclists have been killed in Toronto so far this year, according to data compiled by Toronto Police and the Star. That exceeds the number killed by this date in 2017 and 2016.In the last 10 years, only 2015 saw more pedestrians and cyclists killed by this date, at 23.It’s a statistic that haunts the mayor. “It’s obvious we are not yet doing enough,” he said Tuesday after learning of the cyclist’s death in the Annex. “I am devastated personally and it is something that is deeply troubling to me that we’ve had the number of fatalities involving both pedestrians and cyclists this year.” The mayor was speaking to reporters following an earlier Tuesday morning meeting of public works and infrastructure committee. The committee was debating adding bike lanes and cycle tracks in the northwest part of the city, including in the area near York University — what Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti called a “downtown approach to the suburbs.”. “I do not believe bicycles should be on roads at all,” he said at the meeting.Speaking to reporters later, Tory called that kind of thinking “outdated.”“We are actually encouraging mor ...
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